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Belated thank you for the reps. Genius is a word that is thrown around too lightly nowadays, but il Poeta deserves that accolade as much as anyone. I have no doubt in my mind that I would not now be Catholic without Dante. I'll leave you some of his beautiful work as a testament to his honor.

As the geometer who sets himself
To square the circle and who cannot find,
For all his thought, the principle he needs,

Just so was I on seeing this new vision
I wanted to see how our image fuses
Into the circle and finds its place in it,

Yet my wings were not meant for such a flight —
Except that then my mind was struck by lightning
Through which my longing was at last fulfilled.

Here powers failed my high imagination:
But by now my desire and will were turned,
Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,